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How to get remote page titles

By Chad • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Projects

If you’re an amateur web developer and have an application where you need to get the title of some other page, you probably know that doing so is no easy task.
Several of my applications already do this, but to make it easier for other developers and my future need, I made a service called Get [...]



jQuery TinyMCE Plugin

By Chad • Aug 26th, 2009 • Category: Projects

A few projects of mine which are still in progress use TinyMCE for text editing.  I can’t stand the TinyMCE configuration, so a while back I wrote a jQuery plugin to make it a little less painful.
The jQuery TinyMCE plugin differs from the standard TinyMCE configuration in that any jQuery object can be used to [...]



Mobile Browser Detection

By Chad • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Projects

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, but that’s only because I’ve been super busy coming up with new creative projects. Today I decided to move all future family and personal updates off-site, so don’t expect anything but project updates from here on out.
One of my recent projects is a set of open source scripts [...]



Six Years Ago

By Chad • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Daily Life

Today is an important day in my family, so I figured I’d wipe the dust off That Smith long enough to share what makes today so special.
On this day six years ago, I met this young lady for the first time.

We met at a Royals-Twins game at Kauffman Stadium, eventually started dating, and then about [...]